"The new city standing on its haze" is built from a crudely recorded guitar tap, of Lij picking out a chord progression in Nashville who knows how many years ago, onto some primitive tape recorder. I dubbed Les Murray's reading onto it - a reading recorded in Long Island City - in the spare bedroom of Matt Fuller's sister in Hollywood.

So this crude recording had music from Nashville, dubbed in Los Angeles with an Australian reading in New York. That still, somehow, wasn't enough. It wanted some city sounds. So Adam positioned one (high-performance) mic out the back door and another out a window.

It rained steadily, so we get more water than city, but that's okay, for a watery poem about a harbour city; in this stretch of the poem, Les yammers about the "ship-chained harbour" and "flooded valley".

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Poetry Scores translates poetry into other media, from its home base in St. Louis, Missouri, U.S., but with friends and partners around the country and here and there all over the world. *** (Contact creative director Chris King, who maintains this blog, at brodog [@] hotmail.com.)